MEMO TO MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.[1]

Written:Written on March 5, 1922Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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To Politbureau members

Sokolnikovis missing the mark. What are the guarantees
that everything valuable will not behauled out?

Thereare none.

Stealingis now going on; it’s true; let’slearn to catch
peoplefor stealing, instead of making it easier for rich
foreigners to steal.

[1]Writtenon G. Y. Sokolnikov’s letter in reply to Lenin’s note
of February 28 (see this volume, Document 662).

Inhis letter, Sokolnikov suggested that the trusts,
co-operatives and others should be allowed to purchase food abroad. In his
opinion, the guarantee that an excess of valuables would not be
taken out of the country and that food instead of other goods
would be imported in return was these organisations’ extreme
need of food, and control by the People’s Commissariat for
Foreign Trade and the State Bank, through which all operations
should be conducted.